The Lack of Intermission

The use of satin varnish to seal the panels has been great as it has unified the finish – as some colours become shinier than others.

I spent a lot of time agonising about the finish – the fact that you can see brush marks in some colours and not others – this is all dependent on the opacity of the paint/pigments and how many layers I have to apply. In the end I have had to just accept that is how it is going to be. If the colours were flat and had no aberrations then the panel may as well be a digital print out mounted on a panel. So I have come to accept that the deviation in surface and slightly imperfect lines indicate that I have had a hand in the creation. Something so perfect is impersonal, so something slightly imperfect is more personal, intimate and ‘open’ than something created otherwise.